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Customers find this catalog book wonderfully interesting and entertaining, providing a wonderful look back into house history. They appreciate the designs, with one customer noting the many sketched pictures of interior rooms, and another mentioning the huge attic space. The book receives positive feedback for its catalog quality.
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For almost 20 years, Sears, Roebuck and Company purveyed the materials for complete prefabricated houses, providing thousands of Americans with attractive and comfortable low-cost dwellings. Many of these homes are still a common feature in cities and towns across America.
The present volume, a meticulous reproduction of a rare Sears, Roebuck catalog of 1926, provides a thorough, accurate record of the company’s “Honor Bilt Modern Homes.” Over 300 photographs and illustrations, with full descriptions, offer views of 86 different houses and cottages of widely varying sizes and designs. Readers may recognize familiar architectural styles in designs such as the cozy six-room “Homewood” bungalow or the elegant “Lexington,” a nine-room, green-shuttered colonial. Also shown are several room interiors for each of 14 homes, along with photographs and plans for nine garages and a hunter’s cabin. In addition to visual documentation, the catalog provides extensive, detailed construction information, ranging from the grade of exterior siding to the type of wood used for flooring, windows, and trim.
An invaluable primary source illustrated for anyone engaged in the study, authentication, or restoration of antique homes or furnishings, this period catalog will also be of special value to architectural and social historians, Americana enthusiasts, and general readers.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Rocky Heuer Jr.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Neat book for the coffee table
Review: Such a neat book to look at
Reviewer: curious
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nostalgia plus
Review: Great history of houses especially since I am age 89. Love the catalogue lay out. We used to dream over the Sears Catalogue. Waited for each new issue. Ordered many items but not a house.
Reviewer: Cindy Jacques
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: super fast shipping
Review: awesome book
Reviewer: Bill A.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting Historical Reference
Review: Makes a nice coffee table book. Information on the iconic Sears Roebuck houses is quite interesting. You can see how home design has evolved over time.
Reviewer: James E. Strickland
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What fun to find my home!
Review: Growing-up in Alabama in the early 1940’s, living on Main Street and being told ‘we live in a Sears & Roebuck house’ was always fascinating to me. One year while helping my father do some electrical work in the attic, he pointed out to me a ‘brand’ on one of the roof beans with a ‘model number’ written clearly for anybody to see. Yes, I grew-up in a Sears & Roebuck House that cost less than $3,000.00. Years later I continued my research by contacting Sears & Roebuck asking about our home and received a packet of information on our exact home. It was thrilling to see “my home” in the recent book and to read the descriptions of the rooms, light fixtures, etc. It turned-out there were two other Sears & Roebuck homes in our small hometown of less than 3,000 people. When my father sold the house following the death of his wife (my mother), the lady who purchased it did so because it was a Sears & Roebuck House and restored it to its full glory. What a joyous find!
Reviewer: Judith
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I am amazed at how small kitchens and bedrooms were in these …
Review: This is a reprint of a Sears catalog, so you get just what customers got nearly a hundred years ago. It is interesting to see how people lived. They considered dining rooms as essential, but closet space was not prized. Most of the homes are fairly small. I am amazed at how small kitchens and bedrooms were in these houses. The old houses that I grew up in were big farmhouses with very large rooms. The idea of a “master” bedroom that is only 9 x 10 is amazing to me. There are a lot of bungalow plans, along with other fairly small houses. Most of them have just one bathroom, which is generally upstairs in two story houses. A few of the plans had no bathroom. I could imagine myself living in some of these houses–after I took two bedrooms and made them into one decent sized room. However, I’ve seen other old house plan books that had more interesting plans than this one. Also, be aware that the plans in this book are quite small. I read it on my iPad, so I was able to zoom in on them. If you’re reading the print book, you might need a strong magnifying glass.
Reviewer: Rita
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderfully Interesting Book!
Review: Got this as a Christmas present for my dear friend who lives in a Sears house. She loved it as did her husband! Her home is lovely, too! Can you imagine buying a kit and constructing a house today for a few thousand dollars?
Reviewer: Mike
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Found my house design
Review: I inherited my house from my dad. I researched it in a local kit house builder’s catalog (ie Pacific), but couldn’t find it. I remembered dad’s mother was a Sears and how this house reminded him of the Peoria house he grew up in as a kid. So, I got this catalog and found the floor plan!
Reviewer: Fernando D. M. Vargas
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A reprodução de algumas páginas, sobretudo as com imagens, são de qualidade baixa, sem definição e com pouca tinta.
Reviewer: see
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: View from the past. Fun to thumb through this book
Reviewer: Joseph M. Lenarcik
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I learned a lot from this book by just looking at the drawings and building plans. I once lived in a mail order house and it was by far the best apartment I rented. It had stained glass windows, a fireplace, hardwood floors, radiator heating and a chandelier. This house probably cost less than $4000 to build in 1920 but to me it was like Jay Gatsby’s house in “The Great Gatsby”.
Reviewer: martin pettigrew
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: good
Reviewer: Tom Veitch
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: love this book Had a copy years ago but lost it in a flood Glad I found another copy
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